Sport: Charge!

Crowding into Seals Stadium, the fans wore the jaunty black-and-orange
baseball caps of the home-town San Francisco Giants. Market Street
intersections were ablare with car radios tuned to "the game.'' Even at
Oklahoma! the playgoers showed up with transistor sets, listening with
earplugs, and at nearby San Quentin the warden postponed the lights-out
of 11:15 p.m. until the Giants had won an extra-inning game. It was the
same in Los Angeles, 350 miles to the southeast. At a rocket test site,
an engineer could barely wait for the blast of an Atlas engine to...